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US 8,478,579 B2Granted
Conditional translation header for translation of web documents
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Chin, Darren Lewis, Joshua Estelle
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for translation of web documents. The original language of document text in the web document is identified. A translation header is displayed with the web document text only if the original language is different from a user's preferred language. The translation header provides the user with an option of translating the document text or portions of the document text to the user's preferred language.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, at a client device, a document for a web page, the document comprising document text in a first language to be displayed on the client device;
- displaying, at the client device, the web page in web browser software executing at the client device, wherein the web page includes the document text of the document;
- identifying, at the client device, a second language to which the document text may be translated;
- determining, at the client device, whether the second language is different from the first language;
- displaying, at the client device, a translation header as part the web page above a portion of the document text to be translated when the second language is determined to be different from the first language, the translation header including (i) a selectable option to translate the portion of the document text from the first language to the second language and (ii) text in the second language describing the selectable option;
- and
- in response to a selection of the selectable option:
- identifying, at the client device, the portion of the document text to be translated;
- sending a request from the client device to a translation server to translate the portion of the document text from the first language to the second language;
- in response to the request, receiving at the client device translation data including a corresponding translated portion of the document text in the second language;
- and
- displaying, at the client device, the translated portion of the document text of the document as part of the web page.
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A system, comprising:
- one or more computers operable to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a client device, a document for a web page, the document comprising document text in a first language to be displayed on the client device;
- displaying, at the client device, the web page in web browser software executing at the client device, wherein the web page includes the document text of the document;
- identifying, at the client device, a second language to which the document text may be translated;
- determining, at the client device, whether the second language is different from the first language;
- displaying, at the client device, a translation header as part the web page above a portion of the document text to be translated when the second language is determined to be different from the first language, the translation header including (i) a selectable option to translate the portion of the document text from the first language to the second language and (ii) text in the second language describing the selectable option;
- and
- in response to a selection of the selectable option:
- identifying, at the client device, the portion of the document text to be translated;
- sending a request from the client device to a translation server to translate the portion of the document text from the first language to the second language;
- in response to the request, receiving at the client device translation data including a corresponding translated portion of the document text in the second language;
- and
- displaying, at the client device, the translated portion of the document text as part of the web page.
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A computer program product encoded on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- retrieving a document for a web page, the document comprising document text in a first language to be displayed on a client device;
- displaying the web page in web browser software executing at the client device, wherein the web page includes the document text of the document;
- identifying a second language to which the document text may be translated;
- determining whether the second language is different from the first language;
- displaying a translation header as part the web page above a portion of the document text to be translated when the second language is determined to be different from the first language, the translation header including (i) a selectable option to translate the portion of the document text from the first language to the second language and (ii) text in the second language describing the selectable option;
- and
- in response to a selection of the selectable option:
- identifying the portion of the document text to be translated;
- sending a request to a translation server to translate the portion of the document text from the first language to the second language;
- in response to the request, receiving translation data including a corresponding translated portion of the document text in the second language;
- and
- displaying the translated portion of the document text.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.